Oil market of Kazakhstan uses practice of restricting access to suppliers' resources for small companies

In Kazakhstan, oil products are sold by 59 oil suppliers. Of these, PetroSun and KazMunayGas occupy 80% of the market. Half of the participation share of PetroSun was bought out by KazMunayGas. Thus, today the state has almost 80% of the wholesale market of petroleum products. But due to the...